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PUBLIC LAW 234—OCT. 30, 1951
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tion: Provided further, That, if the annuity of the individual is awarded pursuant to a joint and survivor election, the spouse's annuity shall be computed or recomputed as though such individual had not made a joint and survivor election: And provided further, That any spouse's annuity shall be reduced by the amount of any annuity and the amount of any monthly insurance benefit, other than a wife's or husband's insurance benefit, to which such spouse is entitled, or on proper application would be entitled, under subsection (a) of this Poit, p. 686. section or subsection (d) of section 5 of this Act or section 202 of the ^^49 Stat. 623;64 Stat. Social Security Act; except that if such spouse is disentitled to a 42 U.S.C. s 402. wife's or husband's insurance benefit, or has had such benefit reduced, by reason of subsection (k) of section 202 of the Social Security Act, the reduction pursuant to this third proviso shall be only in the amount by which such spouse's monthly insurance benefit under said Act exceeds the wife's or husband's insurance benefit to which such spouse would have been entitled under that Act but for said subsection (k). "(f) For the purposes of this Act, the term 'spouse' shall mean the wife or husband of a retirement annuitant or pensioner who (i) was married to such annuitant or pensioner for a period of not less than three years immediately preceding the day on which the application for a spouse's annuity is filed, or is the parent of such annuitant's or pensioner's son or daughter, if, as of the day on which the application for a spouse's annuity is filed, such wife or husband and such annuitant or pensioner were members of the same household, or such wife or husband was receiving regular contributions from such annuitant or pensioner toward her or his support, or such annuitant or pensioner has been ordered by any court to contribute to the support of such wife or husband; and (ii) in the case of a husband, was receiving at least one-half of his support from his wife at the time his wife's retirement annuity or pension began. " (g) The spouse's annuity provided in subsection (e) shall, with respect to any month, be subject to the same provisions of subsection (d) as the individual's annuity, and, in addition, the spouse's annuity shall not be payable for any month if the individual's annuity is not payable for such month (or, in the case of a pensioner, would not be payable if the pension were an annuity) by reason of the provisions of said subsection (d). Such spouse's annuity shall cease at the end of the month preceding the month in which (i) the spouse or the individual dies, (ii) the spouse and the individual are absolutely divorced, or (iii), in the case of a wife under age 65, she no longer has in her care a child who, if her husband were then to die, would be entitled to an annuity under subsection (c) of section 5 of this Act." SEC. 6. Subsection (a) of section 3 of the Kailroad Retirement Act 46 U.S.C. 5 228c. of 1937, as amended, is amended by changing "2.40" to "2.76", "1.80" to "2.07", and "1.20'^ to "1.38". SEC. 7. Subsection (b) of section 3 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, as amended, is amended by striking out all of paragraph (4) and inserting in lieu thereof the following paragraph: "The retirement annuity or pension of an individual, and the annuity of his spouse, if any, shall be reduced, beginning with the month in which such individual is, or on proper application would be, entitled 49 Stat. 620; 64 Stat, ^o an old age insurance benefit under the Social Security Act, as 42 u. 8. c. ss 1306, follows: (i) in the case of the individual's retirement annuity, by that 301 note. portion of such annuity which is based on his years of service and compensation before 1937, or by the amount of such old age insurance benefit, whichever is less, (ii) in the case of the individuaPs pension, by the amount of such old age insurance benefit, and (iii) in the case of the spouse's annuity, to one-half the individual's retirement annuity or pension as reduced pursuant to clause (i) or clause (ii) of this
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